What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Translator - Commercial Excellence position at Flowserve Corporation?
Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Commercial Excellence - FPD, the Data Translator enables Flowserve’s Commercial Excellence strategy by ensuring analytics and commercial dashboards are accurate, actionable, and trusted by the sales team. Acting as the bridge between Commercial Excellence, analytics/IT teams, and Sales, this role translates business needs into clear analytic requirements, validates insights with the field, and ensures data-driven insights are consistently activated by Sales to drive profitable growth.
This role is central to ensuring insight quality, accelerating adoption, and translating data into measurable commercial impact.
Insight Translation & Analytics Enablement
Req ID : R-17738
Job Family Group : Information Technology
Job Family : IT Business Analysis
EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you’re searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve’s position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Commercial Excellence - FPD, the Data Translator enables Flowserve’s Commercial Excellence strategy by ensuring analytics and commercial dashboards are accurate, actionable, and trusted by the sales team. Acting as the bridge between Commercial Excellence, analytics/IT teams, and Sales, this role translates business needs into clear analytic requirements, validates insights with the field, and ensures data-driven insights are consistently activated by Sales to drive profitable growth.
This role is central to ensuring insight quality, accelerating adoption, and translating data into measurable commercial impact.
- Translate business priorities into analytics use cases that drive profitable growth.
- Enhance the usability, credibility, and adoption of Commercial Excellence analytics by Sales Engineers and MOSs.
- Accelerate the transition from insight identification to field action.
- Improve data completeness and accuracy for Commercial dashboards and analytic models.
Insight Translation & Analytics Enablement
- Translate Commercial Excellence and business priorities into analytics and dashboard requirements.
- Define and document analytics requirements, assumptions, and success criteria to ensure analytics development aligns with business objectives.
- Partner with analytics teams on opportunity identification, KPI definitions, and validation logic.
- Develop and lead a structured meeting cadence with working team comprised of IT, Analytics, and SMEs from the business.
- Develop regular progress updates that synthesize key insights, roadblocks, and next steps for business leadership
- Validate analytics outputs with Sales Engineers and MOSs.
- Identify data inaccuracies and gaps, and misaligned assumptions.
- Drive continuous refinement of analytic models based on field feedback.
- Collaborate with sales leadership to validate, prioritize, and progress leads.
- Review analytic outputs to confirm accuracy, relevance, and usability.
- Establish and monitor data quality standards for Commercial Excellence dashboards and analytics.
- Work with analytics and BI teams to address data gaps.
- Translate complex analytics into simple, field-ready narratives, and insights.
- Support Commercial Excellence training teams to reinforce desired selling behaviors and analytic activation.
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
- 3–5 years in analytics, commercial operations, business analysis, or sales enablement roles within industrial environments
- Understanding of SQL/Python for data validation
- Proven ability to simplify complex analytics
- Experience facilitating meetings, project management, tracking metrics, and removing obstacles.
- Strong understanding of commercial processes and the customer journey.
- Ability to synthesize commercial scenarios and associated data, translating them into actionable insights.
- Excellent communication skills; comfortable engaging sales teams and cross-functional partners.
- Proactive approach and commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
- Experience with BI Dashboards, CRM/CPQ systems (Salesforce preferred), Jira/Azure DevOps is a preferred
- Experience supporting industrial sales teams preferred
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance (including FSA and HSA options)
- Life Insurance Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
- Retirement Planning, 401(k) plan, & Financial Wellness Resources
- Educational Assistance Program
- Time off Policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid vacation)
- Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment
Req ID : R-17738
Job Family Group : Information Technology
Job Family : IT Business Analysis
EOE including Disability/Protected Veterans. Flowserve will also not discriminate against an applicant or employee for inquiring about, discussing or disclosing their pay or, in certain circumstances, the pay of their co-workers. Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision
If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access flowservecareers.com as result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an email to employment@flowserve.com. In order to quickly respond to your request, please use the words "Accommodation Request" as your subject line of your email. For more information, read the Accessibility Process.